Biscuit Cake(Eggless)

My SIL makes this cake very often. It's very simple, tasty, and can be made out of ingredients available at home. Her instructions are also simple but I have tried to put some standard measures.

Ingredients:

1 packet of glucose biscuits the one that costs Rs.10/- only (190 grams).

3 dav sugar (dav is a serving spoon for daal substitute with  190 grams)

2 tblspns Drinking chocolate

2 tblspns  cocoa

220 ml milk

1 sachet of Eno's fruit salt (5 grams)

Method:

1.  Grease a bowl/ tray about 6x3 inches.
2. Grind the biscuits, sugar cocoa and drinking chocolate to a fine powder.
3. Transfer to mixing bowl.
4. Add 200 ml milk and make a batter. Mix well.
5. In the remaining milk add the fruit salt and mix immediately in the batter.
6. Mix well. Transfer in the greased bowl/tray.
7. Microwave for 10 minutes or, till the cake leaves the sides of the bowl or till a knife inserted in the cake comes out dry.

P.S. the beauty of the cake is you can add 10-12 almonds, cashewnuts . I generally add it in the mixer to avoid the complaints galore.

You can use any biscuit only the sugar and flavouring will have to be changed accordingly.

Bake it as a regular cake in the oven also its divine.

Date Cake(Eggless)

I have made the date cake from the site "Aayi's Recipes" many times.
It is just fantastic!!
Last week I tried the recipe twice, only the second time I had no
cashew nuts!! And so I substituted with almonds and 2 lonesome dried
figs.
I did not expect my kids to like it so I was quite surprised when the
younger one ate it.

Ingredients:

10 dates(Khajoor)
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup atta
1/2 cup oil
11/4 tea spn baking soda
20 almonds and 2 figs

Method:

1. Soak the dates in warm milk overnight.
2. Remove the seeds.
3. Preheat the oven to 180°C /350°F.
4. Grease a tray mine is a bowl which is 6"x3".
5. Add sugar and grind them to a smooth paste along with the milk in
which it is soaked in.
6. Add the nuts and figs and grind to the desired consistency. I
generally grind it fine as my kids do not like nuts in their cake.
7. Add oil and mix.
8. Sieve together flour and baking soda. Add the flour one table
spoon at a time and mix slowly.
9. If you are adding whole nuts add the nuts now and mix.
10. Bake for 35 minutes, till the cake leaves the sides of the bowl or
till a knife inserted in the cake comes out dry.

Chilli Pickle

When I was in Pune at Smita's place she offered me "Phodni Chi
Mirchi" made by Kusum Maushi, her aunt and boy, did I hog on it!

So itwas my duty, nay solemn duty to make it here in Goa.

Between the taste I recollected and the phone calls to Smita I
recreated the recipe.
Then as per perdition of Smita Bai I found the
recipe that I had jotted down in the now numerous books that I seem to
have collected.
Here is the authentic recipe as dictated by Maushi.

¼ kg chillies,
1 cup red mustard
2tsp methi
¼ cup salt
1tsp hing
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 cup lime juice
1 cup oil
1. Wash and dry chillies cut into pieces.
2. Fry methi/fenugreek in oil, drain and powder.
3. Powder mustard, add lime juice and run the mixer.
4. Add the turmeric powder, hing salt and mix.
5. Add chillies.
6. Make a phodni( Oil And mustard )cool and pour over the mix.
Store in fridge.

Dressed up Lemon Zest Cake

In the morning, I decided that my cake needs some dressing up, so I heated up about ½ cup Mapro’s Strawberry Crush, 1 cup water , 1½ tblsps of corn flour and  ½ tsp of gelatin soaked in water (about 1 tblsps for a few minutes) in a double boiler till the mixture thickened.

Cooled and poured the strawberry mixture on the cake.

Dessert after dinner was great.